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An example are the Central Malayo-Polynesian Languages of the Banda Sea . The Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Languages are commonly divided into two branches, Central MP and Eastern MP , which each have certain defining features that unify them and distinguish them from the other. However, while proto-Eastern and proto-Central-Eastern MP languages can be recontructed (the sibling and parent of Central MP, respectively), a proto-Central MP language reconstruction does not seem feasible. It may be that the branches of Central MP are each as old as Eastern MP, but that they went on to exchange features that are now considered to define them as a family. In Eastern MP, common features can be assumed to have been present in the ancestral language, but this is not the case for Central MP. |
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